The high walls of Ngaragba prison enclose more than 500 prisoners and their guards, who live in a state of anger, stress and fear. This is what the Bible Society of the Central African Republic and its church partners found on a recent visit to share God’s love in this place of despair. “Conditions in […]

The Bible took centre stage during the recent visit to Lebanon by Pope Benedict XVI. Not only did the pope point to Scripture as a source of unity, peace and hope for the Middle East’s minority Christian population, but hundreds of thousands of people received special editions of the New Testament from the Bible Society […]

Everything has been taken from Nyirankunda. She has lost her friends, family, home and identity. How can she ever smile again? Nyirankunda is from a village in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Like many thousands of others, she fled her war-torn country for a refugee camp in western Uganda, which is […]

The Women’s World Day of Prayer focus country in 2013 will be France. ZeBible, the alternative experience – Web 2.0 development; the two Bible exhibitions under the title The Bible, Heritage of Humanity; and The Bible in Prison: Releasing Hope and Understanding the Word. The three articles that follow relate to the French Bible Society’s […]

Around 10 years ago, the French Bible Society began working with Protestant and Catholic chaplains to ensure that prisoners’ requests for Bibles are met. “Prisoners are used to Bibles being available, so they ask for them,” says Vincent Leclair, the Catholic Chaplain General for prisons. “But there can be lots of different reasons behind their […]

Pastor Patrice Rolin’s interest in making the Bible available to prisoners dates back to the very start of his ministry, in the mid-1980s. “In my first parish, where I was pastor from 1984 to 1992, a maison d’arrêt (a unit holding people awaiting trial or sentencing) opened in 1991,” he says. “And in the presbytery […]

“The hardest time is when the prisoner arrives in prison. This is when the Bible is most valuable. Prisoners don’t ask for it to please us: when we visit their cells, we can see the Bible, it’s open on the bed or the table. Some are reading it when we arrive.” Marie-Josèphe Dubertret, a retired […]

A conference to help Telugu-speaking migrant workers in Dubai engage with God’s Word has created great excitement among Christian communities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and sparked a flood of requests for more. The 2012 Gulf Telugu Christian Conference, organised by the Global Telugu Christian Ministry, with active participation by the Bible Society in […]

The launch in Embu Town, Kenya, on June 16 of the Kiembu-Kimbeere Bible, a brand new translation made possible by the incredible work of the Bible Society of Kenya, was a truly momentous occasion. All those in attendance could feel a sense of gravity to the event; an awareness that it had been a long […]

Three months ago, the 40,000 speakers of Eastern Arctic Canadian Inuktitut received the full Bible in their own language. This is the first time a Canadian translation of the whole Bible was carried out entirely by native speakers. It’s been celebrated enthusiastically by the community – and for Day 3 of our ’30 Days of […]